The Importance of Nutrition
The process by which your body takes in and uses food.
What is Nutrition?
Starches and sugars found in foods which provide your body’s main source of energy.
What are carbohydrates?
A set of recommendation about smart eating in physical activity for all Americans.
What is Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
Substances added to a food to produce a desired effect.
What is food borne illness?
Substances in food that your body needs to grow to repair itself, and supply you with energy.
What is nutrients?
A tough, complex, carbohydrate that the body cannot digest.
What is a fiber?
An interactive guide to healthful eating and active living.
What is MyPlate?
Treating a substance with heat to kill or slow the growth of pathogens.
What is pasteurization?
A unit used to measure the energy your body uses, and the energy it receives from food.
What are calories?
Nutrients the body uses to build and maintain its cells and tissues.
What are proteins?
A high ratio of nutrients to calories.
What is nutrient-dense?
The spreading of pathogens from one food to another.
What is cross-contamination?
The natural physical drive to eat, prompted by the body’s need for food.
What is hunger?
A waxy, fatlike substance.
What is cholesterol?
The acronym USDA
What is the United States Department of Agriculture?
A condition in which the body’s immune system reacts to substances and some foods.
What is a food allergy?
The psychological desire for food.
What is appetite?
A condition in which the bones become fragile and break easily.
What is osteoporosis?
The acronym DHHS.
What is the Department of Human and Health Services?
A negative reaction to food that does not involve the immune system.
What is a food intolerance?